ectrotic

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἔκτρωσις (éktrōsis, “abortion”).

Adjective

ectrotic (comparative more ectrotic, superlative most ectrotic)

1. (medicine, dated) That tends to prevent the development of something, especially a disease.
   • 1865, John Hughes Bennett, Clinical Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Medicine, 4th edition, Adam and Charles Black, page 963:

     In this case none of the symptoms were present, and there can be no doubt that the ectrotic treatment really checked the progress of suppuration and modified the disease.

   • 1887, John Milner Fothergill, The Practitioner's Handbook of Treatment, 3rd edition, Lea Brothers & Co., page 462:

     In both sexes the ectrotic treatment of applying nitrate of silver to the inflamed surface, either in stick or in strong solution, is undesirable, being fraught with untoward results.

   • 1892, William M. Welch, Small-pox, Hobart Amory Hare, Walter Chrystie, A System of Practical Therapeutics, Volume II, Lea Brothers & Co., page 257,

     If any ectrotic measure were reliable, how easy it would be to limit the amount of cutaneous inflammation, to lessen, if not prevent, the so-called secondary fever, and thus obviate the danger from exhaustion.